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There are much better tools for doing that, such as Guix profiles and nix-shell, which also happen to be better tools for making container images. Linux contain
by sedachv 4y ago
There are much better tools for doing that, such as Guix profiles and nix-shell, which also happen to be better tools for making container images. Linux container images are a distribution mechanism that does not do anything to address package and dependency management other than shifting the problem somewhere else.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agonix/guix are also good solutions, but they have a much higher learning curve than a Dockerfile; I would even be willing to suggest that docker is not the true best solution to any problem it solves, but in my experience it is the easiest solution to most of them